VANESSA KERRY, GOV’T-SUBSIDIZED WORLD TRAVELER
Vanessa Kerry has won a Fulbright scholarship to study medicine in London. According to the Fulbright web site, the federally funded grants for the international exchange program generally provide round-trip transportation; book and research allowances; maintenance for the academic year, based on living costs in the host country; supplemental health and accident insurance; tuition, in some cases; and language or orientation courses, where appropriate.”
According to the State Department, the Congressional appropriation for the Fulbright Program in fiscal year 2003 was $122.9 million. Foreign governments contribute an additional $28 million directly to the Fulbright Program. Guess the Flying Squirrel wasn’t available to whisk Vanessa over to England on dad and stepmom’s own dime.
Wizbang’s Kevin Aylward and friends have comments here.
Slantpoint has a different take:
We should in fact praise her efforts to study medicine and help the suffering around the world. She is talented and intelligent, and outside of politics, seems to have her heart in the right place…It is petty partisan snipes like this that make us look bad. Ask yourself this, if you had the Kerry fortune, and you won the Fulbright scholarship, would you turn it down?
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